Hood-extending device.



B. H. BAKER.

HOOD EXTENDING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 20, 1912.

Patented Dec. 31, 1912.

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BENJAMIN HAROLD BAKER, OF S OUTI-IBOURNE, ENGLAND.

HOOD-EXTENDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31,1912.

Application filed May 20,1912. Serial No. 698,545.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN HAROLD BAKER, a subject of the King ofGreat Britain and Ireland, of Headland House, Southbourne, Hampshire,England, have invented a new and useful Hood-Extending Device, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for effecting the folding and unfolding ofhoods, and is more especially intended for the hoods of motor roadvehicles, and consists of the hereinafter described devices provided inconnection with the hoops of the hoods for facilitating the folding andunfolding of the hoods, which devices consist principally of fittingsapplied to the hoops in such manner that, when the hood is folded, thesaid fittings will automatically engage together,

and when the hood is unfolded, the drawing forward of the front hoop inunfolding the hood, will draw forward the next hoop with it, and whenthe rear part of the hood has been extended, the said fittingsautomatically disengage and the front part of the hood can then be drawnforward.

The invention also includes improved supports upon which the front hoopof the hood turns.

I will describe my invention with reference to the accompanyingdrawings.

Figures 1 and 2 are, respectively, a side elevation and a planillustrating, by way of example, the application of my invention to amotor car provided with front and rear seats. Figs. 3 and 4 areperspective views, on an enlarged scale, of the preferred form of thedevices according to my invention. Figs. 5 and 6 are elevations, partlyin section, illustrating the action of the devices, and Figs. 7 and 8are perspective views of the preferred construction of the devices for Isupporting the lower ends of the front hoop of the hood.

1 is the collapsible hood, 2 is the front hoop of the said hood, 3 isthe first of the rear hoops thereof, and 4 are straps by which the hood1 is retained in its extended position. All of these parts may be of anyknown, or suitable, kind.

Staples, or loops, 5 are secured at a suitable distance apart to thefront hoop 2, and hooks 6, adapted to engage the said staples, or loops,are secured in corresponding positions to the first hoop 3 of the rearhoops of the hood. The staples, or loops, 5 are prefline with the slots8*.

erably made as shown in Fig. 3, they each consisting of a base plate 5*,(provided with holes for the screws used for fixing the device of thehoop 2), and two arms 5 carrying a cross-bar 5 of circularcross-section. The hooks 6 are, as shown in Fig. 4:, each provided witha base plate 6 with holes for the screws for fixing the fitting to thehoop 3. The said staples, or loops, and the said hooks, are so shapedand disposed as to automatically engage together when they meet when thehoop 2 of the forward part of the hood is pushed back, and they remainengaged in unfolding the hood so that the drawing forward of the fronthoop 2 draws forward the rear part of the hood and, on the furtherforward movement of the front hoop 2, after the rear part of the hood isextended, the said engaged fittings become automatically disengaged andthe front of the hood can then be extended.

The ends of the hoops may be centered to the vehicle in any suitableway, but the ends of the front hoop 2 are preferably each centered asfollows, so that they can be readily unshipped and shipped as required.For each end of the hoop 2 the vehicle is provided with a standard 7having, in its upper end, a circular opening 8, from which leads a slot8*. The ends of the hoop 2 are provided with lugs 9 of a lengthcorresponding to the diameter of the circular opening 8,

, and of a width corresponding to the width of the slot 8 in thestandards 7. The lugs and slots 8 are so disposed that when the fronthoop 2 is moved from, or into, the position shown in full lines in Fig.5, the lugs 9 turn in the openings 8 as on hinged centers, and when thehoop 2 is moved back so that the devices 5 and 6 become engaged (thatis. the position when the front of the hood is folded), the lugs 9 arein line with the slots 8,

so that the said lugs can be withdrawn from, .i Y

and reinserted into, the openings 8, through the said slots. The lugs 9are preferably provided with heads 9*.

The operation is as follows :-Presuming the hood to be fully unfolded,or extended, the straps 4 are unfastened and the front hoop 2 is turnedon the lugs 9, engaging the openings 8. until the said lugs are in linewith the said slots 8 The cross-bars 5 of the staples, or loops, 5 willthen become antomatically engaged with the hooks 6, as shown in Fig. 5.The lugs 9 are then in The front hoop 2 is to become engaged and thenraised so as to free the lugs 9ron its ends from the slots 8*, and thefolding of the hood is completed by pushing the whole hood backward.When the hood is to be extended, the front hoop 2 is pulled forwarduntil the rear portion of the hood is extended by reason of the engagedfittings 5 and 6 drawing forward the rear hoops. The lugs 9 are thenpassed through the slots 8 into the openings 8 and the extension of thehood is completed by turning the front hoop 2 from the position shown indotted lines to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 5.

I have shown two pairs of fittings 5 and 6 applied to the hoops, butone, two, or more, pairs may be used, as desired, and, instead of thelugs 9 and openings and slots 8 and 8*, other means of connecting theends of the hoop 2 to the vehicle may be employed.

I do not limit myself to the precise form of the fittings 5 and 6 asthey may be made of any suitable form which will allow them disengagedas described. If desired, the lugs 9 may be on the standards and thecircular openings 8 and slots 8 be in fittings on the ends of the hoop2.

What I claim is 1. A folding vehicle hood frame comprising a rear hoopand a front hoop entirely independent thereof in the extended positionofthe frame, in combination with cooperating pivotal latching elements,carried by said hoops and serving to facilitate the extension of thehood, said elements automatically engaging upon the folding back of thefront hoop upon the rear hoop and automatically disengaging upon theforward'extension of the front hoop, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

2. A folding vehicle hood frame, comprising a rear hoop and anindependent front hoop, pivotal supports for said hoops spaced apart,the front hoop being readily detachable from its support, in combinationwith cooperating pivotallatching elements 51 of this patent may beobtained for five cents each, byaddressing the respectively carried bysaid hoops and interengaged in the non-extended position of the forwardhoop but so shaped that by the adjustment of the front hoop on itspivotal support, the latching elements are brought into such positionthat they are auto-matically disengaged by the forward swinging of thefront hoop on its pivot to completely extend the frame.

3. A folding vehicle hood frame, comprising a rear hoop and anindependent front hoop, independent pivotal supports for said hoops, incombination with pivotal latching elements automatically engaged on thefolding of the front hoop back upon the rear hoop and serving to enablethe frame as a whole to be partially extended by the application ofpower to the front hoop alone, said latching elements beingshaped toautomatically disengage upon the forward swinging of the front hoop onits pivot, substantially as described.

4. A folding vehicle frame comprising a rear hoop and an independentfront hoop, independent pivotal supports for each hoop, said front hoopbeing readily unstepped from its support, in combination with latchingelements on said hoops brought into engagement by the swinging back ofthe front hoop upon its pivotal support and interlocked upon theswinging back of the unstepped front hoop upon the rear hoop, saidinterengaged latching elements servin as a pivot, whereby saidinterlocked elements serve as an engagement between the front and rearhoops by means of which the rear portion of the hood may be extended onapplication of power to the front hoop alone, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' BENJAMIN HAROLD BAKER.

lfVitnesses I v HARVEY J. BAvERsTooK, CHARLES PACK.

Commissioner of Patents,

v Washington, D. C.

